Learning to Dance with Desire
When it comes to sexual intimacy, do you prefer to stay on the sidelines of your growth, willing to let God make some changes but not interested in doing much of the work yourself? If you want healing, you need to do your part and get yourself to the healing waters.
Most husbands experience emotional connection best through sexual intimacy. Their desire to connect with you through sexual intimacy is how God designed them. And you may be surprised to know that learning to care for your husband’s heart may end up healing your heart as well.
Deal with your feelings to bring healing to you and your marriage.
Hillsong’s Hosanna includes the lyrics “break my heart for what breaks yours.” I think of those words every time I receive a message from yet …
Complacency keeps you mired in the pain of the past. Conquer your complacency. Choose to move forward and seek healing.
How can a wife heal her hurting heart? My years of resistance to intimacy, sexual and otherwise, were built on a foundation of my own …
For so long, I figured I would work on my issues with sex someday—when the kids were grown, when I had less stress at …
Discouragement on the journey to improve sexual intimacy is normal. Most of us hit stumbling blocks, wonder if our efforts will ever pay off, experience frustration as things don’t work or seem harder, and struggle with a husband’s reaction (or lack of reaction) to our work. For each area of discouragement you experience on your journey, see if there a new way to understand it so it can become a source of encouragement instead.
A wife who uses her strong will for her husband and her marriage is a blessing.
My sexuality is so interconnected with my emotions that even a small emotional blip can turn off the sexual switch for me. This post shares strategies to help restore what emotional hurt has pushed aside.
If sexual intimacy is tangled up with other issues in your life, you can begin to untangle the mess, one step at a time.
Does your sleepwear send a message to your husband? Is it the real message, or a message in disguise?
Do you have a negative view of your husband’s sexuality? Learn to understand your husband’s sexuality and sexual response, and learn to see it as part of God’s design for your marriage–just as yours is.
The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands can help women understand the role of sexual intimacy in helping their husbands feel loved. This guest post was written by Mrs. Librarian (married to the writer behind The Curmudgeonly Librarian).
September 5, 2010, was a significant day in our marriage. It was the day my eyes were opened to the hurt my husband was experiencing …